Is it possible to change the location for .Xauthority, to something other than $HOME/.Xauthority ? AFAIU, this file is being created every time I log into LXDE, by my login manager slim.
The problem ...

Currently when I login I do not have to provide a login password. I simply click on my user name and I get in. I would like to change that. In order to accomplish that I went to settings >> users and ...

OS: Linux, Mint.
I want to have a system where I can insert a flashdrive into a computer, and using UDEV rules, have the system login a user account. I can do the UDEV part, but what command should I ...

I have a CIFS drive that I mount regularly, and it requires a password for it. Since it's annoying to type my password every time, I wrote a script that sets the PASSWD environment variable, mounts ...

I am trying to create new users using useradd command using root credentials it is getting created properly but when I log in with the newly created user with its credentials using a PuTTY Console, I ...

I've just figured I don't actually need an image when logging into slim, especially if that image is a few megabytes large.
Currently they're both set to 1x1 png images, however, then that image has ...

I need to run the web browser with another user but I don't want the user to be shown at the login screen. How can I create a user that will not be listed on the login screen? GNOME/Scientific Linux ...

Plain old GNOME 2 had a panel applet which displayed your user long name. It had a menu option under which you could set an image to be a login avatar, and it appeared in the gdm display manager (aka ...

After installing a base command line install of Ubuntu 10.04, I installed slim and xfce which worked fine for the first 2 or 3 reboots. However, now when I start up, it gets to the slim login screen, ...

Is it possible to create a "guest" account in Linux? by "guest" account I mean an account that does not require a password to log in graphically.
I want this account for when people come over and are ...